AMSAT CABLE v. CABLEVISION OF CONNECTICUT

No. 1032, Docket 92-9162.

6 F.3d 867 (1993)

AMSAT CABLE LTD., A Connecticut Partnership and Stamford Apartments Co., A Connecticut Partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CABLEVISION OF CONNECTICUT LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; Peter G. Boucher, Commissioner Department of Public Control State of Connecticut; Otto C. Neumann, Commissioner Department of Public Utility Control; Richard G. Patterson and Clarice Nardi Riddle, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Defendants-Appellees, Office of Consumer Counsel, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. James MacNaughton, Woodbridge, NJ, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Allan B. Taylor, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, for defendant-appellant Cablevision of Connecticut Ltd. Partnership.

Tatiana D. Sypko, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Connecticut, New Britain, CT (Richard Blumenthal, Atty. Gen. of Connecticut, Robert S. Golden, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Connecticut, of counsel), for defendants-appellants Peter G. Boucher, Otto C. Neumann, Richard G. Patterson, and Clarice Nardi Riddle.

Valerie J. Bryan, Office of Consumer Counsel, New Britain, CT, for intervenor-appellee Office of Consumer Counsel.

Renee Licht, Acting General Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, DC (Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate General Counsel, Sara F. Seidman, Sp. Asst., of counsel) submitted a brief amicus curiae on behalf of F.C.C.

John L. Grow, Counsel, New York State Com'n on Cable Television, Albany, NY (Jaclyn A. Brilling, Deputy Counsel, of counsel) filed a brief amicus curiae on behalf of New York State Com'n on Cable Television.

Martin J. Schwartz, New York City (Richard G. Primoff, Rubin Baum Levin, Constant & Friedman, of counsel) submitted a brief amicus curiae on behalf of Time Warner Cable of New York City.

John D. Pellegrin, Washington, DC, submitted a brief amicus curiae on behalf of Commander Satellite Corp.

Before: ALTIMARI and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and LASKER, District Judge.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

This case involves, inter alia, a constitutional challenge to the application of Connecticut's mandatory cable access law, Conn. Gen.Stat. § 16-333a, a statute that guarantees franchised cable television companies access to apartment complexes currently exclusively serviced by satellite master antenna television ("SMATV") companies on the request of complex residents.

BACKGROUND

Under the terms of § 16-333a...

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